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Winners of ‘Happy Vietnam’ photo, video contest awarded

Winners of the “Happy Vietnam 2023” photo and video competition were honoured at a ceremony held in Hanoi on December 19.
Winners of ‘Happy Vietnam’ photo, video contest awarded ảnh 1Bui Cuong Quyet (centre), a reporter of the Vietnam News Agency, is granted the first prize for his photo titled “Bay len Viet Nam” at the award ceremony on December 19. (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Winners of the “Happy Vietnam2023” photo and video competition were honoured at a ceremony held in Hanoi onDecember 19.

The competition, which focused on human rights in Vietnam,was held online on https://vietnam.vn,a platform for popularising Vietnam’s images, by the Authority of ForeignInformation Service under the Ministry of Information and Communications.

It attracted more than7,000 entries from both Vietnam and other countries after four months, fromJune 15 to October 15.

The best 28 wereawarded, including one first prize, one second prize, one third prize, and 10consolation prizes for the photo and video categories each. The most votedentries of the categories were also honoured.

Winners of ‘Happy Vietnam’ photo, video contest awarded ảnh 2“Bay len Viet Nam” (Flying high, Vietnam) is the first-prize winning photo of the “Happy Vietnam 2023” competition.
The photo winning the firstprize is “Bay len Viet Nam” (Flying high, Vietnam) by Bui Cuong Quyet, a reporter of the Vietnam News Agency.Meanwhile, the best video is “Da Nang – Thanh pho da dang sinh hoc” (Da Nang –The city of biodiversity), a short documentary by Nguyen Thanh Paven.

On this occasion, 70photo entries and 14 videos were also selected for displaying at an exhibitionopened the same day.

The competition was a demonstration of the Party and State’sattention to and consistent policy of caring for people’s material andspiritual lives, centering on people, leaving no one behind, and creating thebest possible conditions for people to participate in, contribute to, and bringinto play their capabilities and wisdom in the development, safeguarding, andinternational integration of the country.

Winners of ‘Happy Vietnam’ photo, video contest awarded ảnh 3General Director of the Vietnam News Agency Vu Viet Trang (R) and Chairwoman of the Vietnam Association of Photographic Artists Tran Thi Thu Dong visit an exhibition of entries to the competition on December 19. (Photo: VNA)
It also gave a chance to people nationwide, overseas Vietnamese,and international friends to create photos and videos introducing images ofVietnam to the world, thereby inspiring the aspiration for a prosperous andhappy nation and helping promote the cultural values and strength of the Vietnamesepeople in the new era./.
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